Similar to the other threads around here. This time, for my favorite kind of music. 

 

Since it's Christmas Eve, lets commemorate the occasions with a Baroque piece written on this day hundreds of years ago, and makes your typical Christmas song look lame. 

 

Correlli's Conceri Grossi No.8 in G minor. Op. 6

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hp-vWZSpEM

 

Edited December 24, 201311 yr by Amon

You so classy, Amon.

Vivaldi - Winter (The 1st Movement)

 

 

http://youtu.be/h3aw31PPKXU

 

Richard Wagner - Rienzi Overture

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URIwWtwn6qA

 

Sorry for the slack, busy these past few days with family. Lets have what I firmly believe should replace "God save the King/Queen" as the national anthem of the United Kingdom.

 

I Vow to Thee My Country- Gustav Holst

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caP7VY5trw8

 

Want to feel sophisticated? Listen to Harpsichord music.

 

Domenico Scarlatti's Harpsichord Sonatas

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfuZL_RZwIw

 

Want to feel sophisticated? Listen to Harpsichord music.

 

 

Domenico Scarlatti's Harpsichord Sonatas

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfuZL_RZwIw

 

It's true.

This will officially become my favorite music thread!

 

Chopin- Raindrops Prelude, OP 28, No. 15

 

 

Eh I missed a few days, the highest notes ever written for a human voice should make up for it.

 

Mozart's The Magic Flute: Queen of the Night Aria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9SX7V14Z4

 

Ok, so I really had to.

 

Piotr Ilicht Tchaikovsky - Overture 1812

 

http://youtu.be/VbxgYlcNxE8&autoplay=1

 

Edited January 4, 201411 yr by Weedanort

Let's get a little grim dark. 

 

The last piece ever written by Mozart was a Requiem. A requiem is essentially music for a funeral mass. The piece was commissioned by an anonymous person who showed up to Mozart's apartment masked and cloaked and handed him a pouch of money. He was not given any due date for the completion of the piece and was not told who it would be for.

 

As Mozart began working on the piece, he became extremely sick, fainting several times. At a showing of "The Magic Flute" Mozart fell deathly ill, returned home, and began working on the Requiem up until he died. It remained unfinished and was completed by his understudy, his wife, or rival composer and friend, Antonio Saliari. The Requiem's first performance would be at a memorial to Mozart after his funeral. 

 

It's believed that Mozart died of a slow acting poison or unknown disease. Some suspect that Mozart was killed. 

 

The identity of the commissioner was never truly discovered and remains a subject of debate to this day. Theories range from a crazed fan who believed that the only person who should write Mozart's Requiem would be Mozart himself. Another culprit is Antonio Saliari, who despite being a friend of Mozart, was one of his biggest rivals. There's also the belief that a member of the Free Masons had him killed, due to Mozart placing masonic imagery in his compositions and operas. Some even will go as far to say that the commissioner was the ghost of his overbearing father. 

 

Enjoy some highlights from the Requiem, or the whole thing.

 

Mozart's Requiem in D minor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII

 

Let's hear music from a great American composer, who's music beautiful fit the atmosphere of the 1950s. This is a funny little piece called "Typewriter"

 

Leroy Anderson "Typerwriter"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ozd6W1wyzo

Yes, they use an actual typewriter when the perform it. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ozd6W1wyzo

 

Yes, people are still writing Classical compositions. You typically hear it in your movies and video games. Enjoy a piece from a group called Two Steps From Hell, which has a very modern twist towards end. 

 

Two Steps from Hell- All's Hell that Ends Well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgA8icwT90

 

Two Steps From Hell is a freaking musical god! Makes me happy to see others post about it.

 

Didn't know it was defined as Classical though. I always just called it "Orchestral' or some variation of such. I always though Classical was only used to refer to music from the likes of Bach and Beethoven, and others in that period. I guess I learn something new everyday.

Edited January 8, 201411 yr by DragonMaster

Ooh, Weedanort, your post reminded me how much I liked Tchaikovsky.

Waltz of the Flowers

 

Sorry for neglecting this thread, lets try to get back on track by celebrating the cold with beautiful music and creepy masks.

 

Vivaldi's Four Seasons: Winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdFHJXciAQ

 

Two Steps From Hell is a freaking musical god! Makes me happy to see others post about it.

 

Didn't know it was defined as Classical though. I always just called it "Orchestral' or some variation of such. I always though Classical was only used to refer to music from the likes of Bach and Beethoven, and others in that period. I guess I learn something new everyday.

 

Classical Music is a term that's extremely general. It's really meant to describe music that brings back images of ancient Greece and Rome. Technically, most "Classical" composers don't fit the term, however, it's what stayed. I can't describe what's defined as classical music the best, but you can read about it here. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music

Time to make things feel churchy and medieval  with some Bach Organ music.

 

J.S. Bach's Trio Sonatas for Organ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STeWKwN0Yls

 

Andrea Bocelli - Con te partiro

 

http://youtu.be/tcrfvP11Hbo&autoplay=1

 

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

 

 

 

 

Stumbled into this when I was listening to one of my old song playlist. Forgotten how great it sounds.